Specific applications such as a guestbook application, forum manager, content management system, etc., should be listed in their unique, respective categories.

This category contains sites offering ASP-based applications that can be used on web sites or offline. Applications listed here are either offered as source code or compiled applications that provides a component API such that ASP developers can integrate them into their own solutions.
Examples of these applications might be a web message board or auctioning software. The code is already written and ready for use, it would also be possible to customize the applications by altering the source code or accessing the provided component APIs.
Some of these applications are free while others are available at a cost.

Sites submitted to this category should deal with the development of Web applications on the .NET framework. They should not be specific to a .NET language, but focus more on helping others develop .NET Web applications. There are other categories for specific .NET languages, so if the site is language specific please submit to that language category.

ASP.NET content should not deal with Windows Forms, or Windows Console applications. Content for ASP.NET Web Services will be considered.

Microsoft ASP.NET, formerly known as ASP+, is not just the next version of ASP but rather a whole new paradigm for server side scripting on the Microsoft platform.

"References" are sites or pages which can be used as a reference point for investigating elements and functions used in ASP.
They are usually a long list of all the commands and functions which are possible when programming in ASP.

This is for listing software or other related tools to assist ASP developers in their programming and design of sites.

Helpful tools of interest to ASP developers. This category includes links to company sites offering editors, code generators, and server-side components, but does not include resource sites, ASP tools links pages and similar sites.